The First Commandment
A Thriller
Chapter One
Camp Delta
U.S. Naval Station
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
When it was hot and humid, life in Cuba hovered somewhere between absolute
misery and "the bath is ready does anyone have some razor blades?" But
when it was cold and raining, Cuba was downright unbearable. Tonight was
one of those nights.
When the guards arrived at the isolation cells of Delta's "Camp 5," where
the most dangerous and highest-intelligence-value detainees resided, they
were in a worse mood than usual. And it wasn't because of the weather.
Something was wrong. It was written all over their faces as they pulled
five prisoners from their cells and ordered them at gunpoint to strip.
Philippe Roussard hadn't been at Guantanamo the longest, but he had
definitely been interrogated the hardest. A European of Arab descent, he
was a sniper of extraordinary ability whose exploits were legendary.
Videos of his kills played on continuous loops on jihadist websites across
the internet. To his Muslim brothers he was nothing short of a superhero
in the radical Islamist pantheon. To the United S ... read full excerpt from The First Commandment: A Thriller ebook
